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0 pointsblahbhthrow37485y ago0 comments

The limits aren't exactly hidden in the ToS, the author just wasn't aware of them. If you don't pay money for a service what kind of support can you expect on a holiday?

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hn_check5y ago· 2 in thread

Not only are they not hidden, they should really be common sense. That he seems surprised that Cloudflare doesn't cache 14GB files is surprising. There is some common belief that every service has infinite capacity in every dimension.

syrgian5y ago

To be fair, CloudFront's limit is 20GB.

hn_check5y ago

And the price for what he did would have been extreme. Serving a 14GB is something like $1.19 USD on CloudFront.

It sounds like he was operating in tiny land and expected bills to be commensurate, so it just seems irrational to expect a low or free tier of another service to do this for nothing.

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